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Sara Jade Alan wrote her first comedy sketch during second-grade recess, then cast it, directed it, and made costumes out of garbage bags. Since then she's performed in more than a thousand improvised and scripted shows. Currently she's one half the comedy duo The Novelistas, who perform about the highs and lows of writing and publishing. Raised in a suburb of Chicago, Sara now lives in Colorado with her husband--whom she met in her college improv group--and daughter. www.sarajadealan.com ...more

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Sara Alan and 40 other people liked Theresa Alan's review of The Searcher (Cal Hooper, #1): "After years fighting crime as a detective in busy Chicago, Cal has decided to retire (at age 48) to a quiet town in Ireland. He busies himself with fixing up the ramshackle cottage that had been left dormant and decaying for years. He also starts get" Read more of this review »
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Sara Alan and 71 other people liked Theresa Alan's review of Violeta: "4.5 stars rounded up Violeta is born in 1920 in South America during the Spanish flu, the first girl after five boys and several miscarriages. Violeta tells her story to someone she loves when she’s approaching her 100th birthday—during yet another pa" Read more of this review »
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Sara Alan and 50 other people liked Theresa Alan's review of Carrie Soto Is Back: "4.5 stars. I know and care nothing about tennis, but Taylor Jenkins Reid made me riveted in this come-back story set in 1994 where much of it is detailed play-by-play descriptions of tennis champion Carrie Soto coming out of retirement at the age of " Read more of this review »
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